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1st Flatiron soloist (you MSL) - Fess up and stop!

dylan grabowski · · Denver · Joined Mar 2015 · Points: 95
Christian wrote:Hey Dylan Grabowski, you might want to delete your post as well, it also has the guy's personal info :-)
Thanks for pointing this out! Message has been edited.
Brendan Magee · · Parker, CO · Joined Jun 2013 · Points: 0
gription wrote: they are wearing school colors in the photo...some schools actually talk to their students, and the parents. Some parents would not fund a questionable youth unless amends/restitution were made...just off the top of my head.
Two of them have black shirts on but no logos associated with the school. I think it's a bit of a reach for the school to get involved. The public has done a better job educating them on this issue with the exception of the personal information part.
Dave Bn · · Boise, ID · Joined Jul 2011 · Points: 10
Brendan Magee wrote: CU is not a sh*t school. It is nationally ranked in many areas. Please spare the weed and drinking jokes.
CU is the second best geosciences university in the world.

usnews.com/education/best-g…

Lots of dipshits get their undergrad degrees here. That doesn't change the scientific acumen.
Zac St Jules · · New Hampshire · Joined Dec 2013 · Points: 1,188

Leave the school, police, and rangers out of it. The climbing community can govern itself ;)

Joy likes trad · · Southern California · Joined Jul 2012 · Points: 71
Zac.St.Jules wrote:...The climbing community can govern itself ;)
this
Georgehh · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Apr 2015 · Points: 0
Zac.St.Jules wrote:That is a fresh tattoo on his chest. No wonder he wanted his shirt off for the picture.
Don't forget the lip stud as well, this guy is a regular badass.

These jackasses are the inevitable consequence of the arrogant "selfie culture..." obsessed with making their facebook version of themselves look as "cool" as possible, shamelessly mimicking whatever stupid fad they saw on MTV last night.
Em Cos · · Boulder, CO · Joined Apr 2010 · Points: 5
Parker Wrozek wrote: That lady in the picture is not worth impressing. Also who wants to get with a lady who is impressed with the 2nd flat iron???
A. You know her worth based on one photo?

B. We have no reason to believe she's sharpied anything, correct?

Can we leave her out of it, and stick to the topic at hand - these guys are vandals, isn't that enough without trying to attack them by attacking the character of a girl they happen to be standing near?
dylan grabowski · · Denver · Joined Mar 2015 · Points: 95
Georgehh wrote: ...shamelessly mimicking whatever stupid fad they saw on MTV last night.
I don't quite think MTV is all the rage these days.
Georgehh · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Apr 2015 · Points: 0
dylan grabowski wrote: I don't quite think MTV is all the rage these days.
Georgehh wrote: stupid fad they saw on (insert stupid trendy bullshit here) last night.
It doesn't matter... its all the same shit
Brian C. · · Longmont, CO · Joined Feb 2010 · Points: 1,100

Are college kids really dumb enough that they didn't know that writing on rock in permanent marker wasn't going to come off?

These are different people than the MSL writer on the First right?

Brian W. · · Prescott, Arizona · Joined May 2014 · Points: 25
Em Cos wrote: A. You know her worth based on one photo? B. We have no reason to believe she's sharpied anything, correct? Can we leave her out of it, and stick to the topic at hand - these guys are vandals, isn't that enough without trying to attack them by attacking the character of a girl they happen to be standing near?
+1
Marc801 C · · Sandy, Utah · Joined Feb 2014 · Points: 65
Brian C. wrote:Are college kids really dumb enough that they didn't know that writing on rock in permanent marker wasn't going to come off?
Dumb college kids unfortunately are not in short supply:
ksl.com/?sid=36354489&nid=1…
johnnymuir · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Aug 2015 · Points: 20
Georgehh wrote: Don't forget the lip stud as well, this guy is a regular badass. These jackasses are the inevitable consequence of the arrogant "selfie culture..." obsessed with making their facebook version of themselves look as "cool" as possible, shamelessly mimicking whatever stupid fad they saw on MTV last night.
I'd like to think you can be narcissistic with class. I made this image after a couple hours of trash cleanup in a local park. It was my bio photo for my SCA trail crew in 2012.
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Long Ranger · · Boulder, CO · Joined Jan 2014 · Points: 619

Hey remember when CU students wrote something on the Third Flatiron?

Yes? Cause it's still there.

Not to state the obvious

Zach M · · Summersville, WV · Joined Jun 2011 · Points: 0


This seems like as good a place as any to ask about Ernest Greenman. I understand he was a surveyor who climbed in Boulder in the early 20th century. Does anyone know why and how the plaque was placed up there in 1998? What's the full story behind it and the Greenman trail? Is Green Mountain (where the trail ends) also named after him, or is it just the trail?

Vandalizing the Flatirons in this day and age is clearly unacceptable. I'd imagine that everyone who has been named and shamed feels some sense of shame by now. All the same, remember that these people are just 19. While Boulder is a lot more crowded today then it once was, other people have made these selfish choices before, and the damage will probably be cleaned up within a few days, or fade within a few years.
Craig Childre · · Lubbock, TX · Joined Aug 2006 · Points: 4,860

Plus, a black eye, even if you just got beat down, makes you look like a bad ass. A sentiment that I think no one would grant to these jokers. Give them all black eyes and they might actually look hardened.

Nicholas Cai · · Boulder, CO · Joined Sep 2014 · Points: 140
powhound84 wrote:Wait, can we find out from Kaleb if MSL is Fire Mike and if so, did he really write that craigslist reply?
Kaleb told me that no one from his group is MSL.
Long Ranger · · Boulder, CO · Joined Jan 2014 · Points: 619

The first edition of, "Climb!" (late 70's) goes into some history of who Greenman is. Here's a newer edition,

https://books.google.com/books?id=0LaPC9IAfDQC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=Climb!+Earnest+Greenman&source=bl&ots=xXFaqtJB-q&sig=WsnQbV52Zg7RDF294hFRCK5_09M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAWoVChMIismx1YzexwIVyQ2SCh2Qwgf3#v=onepage&q=Climb!%20Earnest%20Greenman&f=false

Parker Wrozek · · Denver, CO · Joined Mar 2012 · Points: 86
Em Cos wrote: A. You know her worth based on one photo? B. We have no reason to believe she's sharpied anything, correct? Can we leave her out of it, and stick to the topic at hand - these guys are vandals, isn't that enough without trying to attack them by attacking the character of a girl they happen to be standing near?
You are right, it wasn't a nice thing to say. So I removed that part of the comment. Feel free to edit it out of yours if you would like.
Brian C. · · Longmont, CO · Joined Feb 2010 · Points: 1,100

Second Flatiron vandals must have been true to what he said. I scrambled up top today and unless I'm blind, it has been removed.

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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